Paost us Own Contasroncent Singapore, Aug. 31.
No one in Shanghai, unless they had lived in Malaya, could understand the. fuss that' is sometime made here about trivial things. A Yoeal paper tells us that "A measure of control of waitresses isto be adopted in Singapore, but Me, H.
Dakers, Protector' of Chinese, Selangor, said that Lumpur ' the local policy was against employing girls as waitress ses in coffee shops, although these were allowed in. coffee shops Stalls in the amusement parks these had. no need to obtain Tieences." He added that he considered that any form of control was. equivalent to taking a backward step towards the old system of protected prostitution, The position of women in Malaya very different from their position in the more conservative parts of China and it that there should be any question at all of any control of waitresses. To-day we see boys and girls working together in schools, we sce them acting together on the stage (a thing that even ten years ago would not have been allowed), and we s a far greater liberty which has not Wogenerated into licence. If, ho fever, we impose restrictions as fond of doing, we shi evil where formerly there was none, The Malayan Government is very good. It is also. incredibly stupid ake this case of the waitress ahd put it alongside the question of the name of the City Council for the capital of the Federated Malay States. It is not called a City Council, it is not even allowed to name itself municipal. Tt called a Sanitary Board. Tt happens that this name stinks in the nostrils of its members, and they want to ye it, But may they? They may not! "If this were not actually true your Editor might think that I had made it up for the delectation of readers of the "North-China Daily News."
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